‘Wheel of Fortune’ Announcer Jim Thornton Suspended After Allegedly Accessing Disturbing Website while on Flight

The website was Reddit

This is uh. Huh. Weird

**Best-effort composite transcript**

**[Username unclear]:** “…had Abdul and four or five named Mahir, and four named Kim.”
**[Username unclear]:** “I’d be in LA in August if you want to meet.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…people named Kim growing up.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…even saw a school at one point.”
**[Username unclear]:** “Future has more or less names to pick from.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…which one is closest to where you are located?”
**[Username unclear]:** “Golden Corral for the first time with my dad and his wife yesterday. A nice hangout for kids. Saw a couple of cute boys and a hot little girl.”
**[Username unclear]:** “Golden Corral is decadent.”
**[Username unclear]:** “‘Jair’ is common in Latin America, but ‘Jesse’ would be looked at funny in the US or anywhere Anglo-Saxon.”
**[Username unclear]:** “The names I mentioned other than Abdulaziz are just sort of popular names.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…always appears to have a lot of kids, but I haven’t been in a while.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…a couple of chains we had growing up.”

Several intervening lines about names, restaurants, locations and travel are too blurred to reconstruct.

**Airport, children and “CP” section**
**Nicholas877:** “[Nah, I only enjoy Latinas] from 16 yo.”
The beginning of that sentence is uncertain, but “from 16 yo” appears visible.
**[Username unclear]:** “Wow, you’re on a plane, dude? What airline?”
**Nicholas877:** “[I actually once saw/sent] a picture sequence of love in a school. I love it.”
**Nicholas877:** “[Though he got pictures ‘before,’ so it’s just a boy’s face…]”
**[Username unclear]:** “I need to be at the airport and start looking [around].”
**Nicholas877:** “When I fly, I go to the airport and start looking at the [prettiest/youngest]. Handsome…”
**[Username unclear]:** “…because he had CP as his phone wallpaper.”
**Nicholas877:** “How old? I guess [that’s bad]. I can’t do any of that shit right now… ‘Free speech,’ baby.”
**[Username unclear]:** “Is it a baby?”
**[Username unclear]:** “Yes.”
**Nicholas877:** “Wow. That sounds a little wild.”
**Nicholas877:** “[I remember] there was a priest who was actually looking at CP on his phone ON THE FLIGHT. Yeah, he didn’t fare so well either.”
**[Username unclear]:** “[Unclear line, possibly containing a link.]”
**[Username unclear]:** “[Question about whether CP could be detected or noticed.]”
**Nicholas877:** “Consequences have me [kind of] paranoid. I mean, all kinds of people get addicted to porn.”
**[Username unclear]:** “[Unclear response.]”
**Nicholas877:** “If I look at it, there’s no help if [he/it is] named.”
**[Username unclear]:** “…would have been a good spot on his bed.”

“CP” is written on the screen more than once. The chat does not define it. In this sexual context it could mean child pornography, now more accurately called child sexual abuse material, but that interpretation is not literally spelled out in the images.

**Clearly readable airplane section**
**Nicholas877:** “ventures to the bathroom for a quick wank on the 737”
**Nicholas877:** “I wonder if you were really horny how fast you could jack off in flight. Bet it’s happened a lot under blankets.”
**[Username unclear]:** “Does it count as the mile-high club if it’s a handjob?”
**Nicholas877:** “Oh definitely.”
**[Username unclear]:** “There’s probably been a few just so they can say they did it.”
**limbean:** “There’s a nice woods near me, lots of cover, but does that count?”
**Nicholas877:** “Well sure. Just don’t use poison ivy leaves to wipe up.”
**Roger joins**
**System:** “RogerTheCabinBoy has joined MainRoom.”
**limbean:** “Dunno, if that’s such an issue here.”
**limbean:** “Hey Roger.”
**Nicholas877:** “Hiya Roger, how ya doing?”
**[Username unclear]:** “Hi Roger!”
**RogerTheCabinBoy:** “Hi Jim.”
**RogerTheCabinBoy:** “Hi Nicholas.”
**Nicholas877:** “You’re lucky if you have no poison ivy/poison oak.”
**[Username unclear]:** “H.”
**[Username unclear]:** “I think it exists, just rare.”
**Nicholas877:** “I have a hillside with 3 acres of poison oak.”
**Nicholas877:** “Feels like it though, so that’s good.”
**limbean:** “3 acres is like my entire lawn.”
**Nicholas877:** “Haha, now a metropolis then.”
**RogerTheCabinBoy:** “Hi Kraft.”

That is everything I can read or reasonably estimate from the available photographs. Some of the most alarming lines are also among the blurriest, so they should be described as probable readings, not certified verbatim quotations.

It took him 57 MINUTES between when he entered and when he left “after he realized what it was”

Sounds like bullshit.

run the plane over him

I figured it was something bad like maybe he griped someone on the plane but this is even worse.

Someone’s getting firedddd

There was video footage of the police meeting with him at the airport. I hope he goes to prison

It’s too bad one cannot open a cabin door at 35000 feet to verify whether gravity acts differently at great heights. He apparently would have been a great candidate.

> Authorities questioned Thornton but did not arrest or charge him.

what do you fucking mean????